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By B. S. HOPKINS and L. L. QUILL Confirmed; They May Be Caused by the Presence of a Metastable State Or 64 (4CHEMISTR Y: HOPKINS AND QUILL PRoe. N. A. S. THE USE OF NON-AQUEOUS SOLVENTS IN THE STUDY OF THE RARE EARTH GROUP By B. S. HOPKINS AND L. L. QUILL DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY, UNIvERsrry OF ILLINOIS Read before the Academy, Monday, November 14, 1932 Aqueous solutions are almost invariably employed in the work which has as its object the separation of the members of the rare earth group. Differences in solubility between neighboring elements are very slight. As a result separations are slow, there are tremendous losses of expensive materials, and complete separations are almost or quite impossible. We have made a study of the solubilities of the chlorides and nitrates in vari- ous non-aqueous solvents in the hope that we might discover some sol- vent which has a distinctly selective action, thereby maling possible more rapid, and more efficient separations. In our preliminary study we have confined our attention to anhydrous solvents and anhydrous salts. It is obvious that the greatest interest in such a study will center upon those cases in which the separations in aqueous solutions present the maximum difficulty. Figure 1 shows the solubility of neodymium chloride in several alco- hols, all of which are good solvents. The curves are regular, showing a fairly uniform increase in solubility with rising temperature. The ability to serve as a solvent increases quite regularly as we pass from the lower to the higher alcohols, methyl alcohol being an outstanding excep- tion to this statement. Figure 2 shows that iso-propyl alcohol is a very poor solvent for rare earth chlorides. It also shows that lanthanum chloride is slightly more soluble in both iso-propyl and propyl alcohol than is neodymium. Figure 3 indicates that ethyl alcohol is a good solvent for lanthanum and neodymium chlorides, but in both cases the curves are not as smooth as those obtained when other alcohols are used as solvents. The behavior of ethyl chlorides indicates that complexes are easily formed. These may account for the sudden breaks in these curves. There may be some significance to the fact that at 300 both these curves drop somewhat, since similar breaks in other curves occur at about this temperature. Ethylene glycol is a good solvent for the chlorides of neodymium and lanthanum as shown by figure 4. The curve for neodymium chloride shows a drop at 300, but in the case of the lanthanum curve there is a marked decrease in solubility at 200, which is followed by a surprisingly large increase at 30°. These anomalous points in the curve have been confirmed; they may be caused by the presence of a metastable state or to some other condition. It appears from these curves that the separation Downloaded by guest on October 1, 2021 VOL. 19, 1933 CHEMISTR Y: HOPKINS AND QUILL 65 of lanthanum and neodymium could be effected readily when their chlorides are extracted with ethylene glycol at 20°. This possibility is to be tested, but since these members of the group are easily separated by standard FIGURE 1 FIGURE 2 FIGURE 3 FIGURE 4 methods of procedure, there appears to be little need for such a method of separation. In figure 5 we find a remarkable similarity in the solubilities of lanthanum and neodymium chlorides when glycerol is used as a solvent. A remarka- bly large dip in both curves occurs at 300. Downloaded by guest on October 1, 2021 66 CHEMISTRY: HOPKINS AND QUILL PROC. N. A. S. Turning now to the solubility of the anhydrous nitrates we find in figure 6 the atomic numbers plotted as abscissa and the solubilities at 250 as ordinates, for both dioxan and ethyl ether. It is to be observed FIGURE 5 FIGURE 6 FIGURE 7 FIGURE 8 that the curves are quite similar, each one showing an abnormal value for cerium nitrate. This is not surprising since cerium has many proper- ties in which it differs rather sharply from other members of the rare earth group. The elements of higher atomic number are more soluble in these solvents than are those of lower atomic number. Downloaded by guest on October 1, 2021 VOL.- 19, 1933 CHEMISTR Y: HOPKINS AND QUILL 67 Because of the difficulty of separating the neodymium and praseodymium there is unusual interest in finding a preferential solvent for one in the presence of the other. Figure 7 shows that neither is extensively soluble in ethyl ether, but that at temperatures below 220, neodymium nitrate is slightly soluble, while praseodymium nitrate is essentially insoluble. The first attempt to utilize this difference in solubility for the separation of these elements was accomplished by using a mixture containing 83 per cent neodymium nitrate and 16 per cent praseodymium nitrate. The material was shaken for several hours with ether at various temperatures. At 30° there was only a slight enrichment in the neodymium content of the extract as is shown in figure 8. At 100 the ether soluble material contained 97 per cent neodym- ium, an increase of 14 per cent in one extraction. By modifying a Soxhlet ex- 8l tractor in such a manner as to permit carrying out the extrac- tion in the vicinity of 103C., it i was found to be possible to pro- 7J t duce a rapid increase in the °0 neodymium content of the ex- ZONITRATEScEPARATIONFROMASEO_YMIUMOF NEODYMIUM tract. The dotted curve shown , / NITRATE H EXTrACTIOEWITh in figure 9. shows the rate at z 5 _ CARL_ NAESER - which this separation takes place I ORIINALCONCENrRATIoN 55% NEOQYMlUM in terms of the number of times 6. EFIECTOFNUPRERf EXTRACTION the Soxhlet apparatus is per- V EXrRACTIONS AT -8 OEGREES mitted to siphon off. Starting 55 2 4 1 ,1 ,1 14 A6 with material containing 55 per FIGURE 9 cent neodymium, after one ex- traction the percentage has increased to 70 per cent while two extractions yield a solution containing nearly 85 per cent neodymium. If, however, the siphon is allowed to drain for fourteen times, the proportion of neodymium in the extract is noticeably less. This is apparently due to the fact that after the ether has dissolved essentially all of the neodymium nitrate in the thimble, there is some tendency to dissolve praseodymium nitrate even at the low temperature used. The solid curve in figure 9 shows the result of a method of fractiona- tion by the use of our modified Soxhlet apparatus. Starting again with material containing 55 per cent neodymium an extract containing 77 per cent of this element was obtained. The solvent was then removed from the extract and the residue again extracted with ether. This second ex- tract was found to contain about 86 per cent neodymium nitrate. By this time the fraction had become so small that a continuation of the proc- Downloaded by guest on October 1, 2021 68 CHEMISTRY: BROCKWA Y AND PA ULING PRoe. N. A. S. ess was impracticable but it appeared to be possible to extract a small quantity of neodymium which was present in praseodymium. Accordingly, we selected a mixture which was composed of 94 per cent praseodymium and 6 per cent neodymium and extracted the latter with ether. The .residue contained such a small quantity of neodymium that it could not be detected by spectroscopic means and we believe that this method of separation may also be applied in other cases. THE DETERMINATION OF THE STRUCTURES OF THE HEXA- FLUORIDES OF SULFUR, SELENIUM AND TELLURIUM BY THE ELECTRON DIFFRACTION METHOD* By L. 0. BROCKWAY AND LINUS PAULING GATES CHEMICAL LABORATORY, CALiFoRNiA INSTITUTE oF TECHNOLOGY Communicated November 18, 1932 The application of electron diffraction methods in the study of gas molecules was first made by Mark and Wierl,I who investigated the struc- ture of a large number of molecules in this way. Using methods closely similar to theirs, and briefly discussed in the following paragraphs, we have determined the atomic configuration and interatomic distances in SF., SeF6 and TeF6. The Debye formula2 for the relative intensity as a function of the scattering angle 0 for x-radiation diffracted by widely separated gas molecules with random orientation is I = k E Ef.f,sinxii (1) ii Xii in which sin 0/2 xij= 4,rI, (la) with lij the distance between the ith and the jth atoms, X the wave-length of the incident radiation, and k a constant for given expeimental condi- tions. The summations extend over all the atoms in one molecule. For electron diffraction the x-ray-scattering factors fi and fj for the atoms are replaced by electron-scattering factors As and #, which were shown by Mott3 to be given by the expression zi - fi {,i = sin 0/2 2) (2) Downloaded by guest on October 1, 2021.
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